The pronunciations listed here are used by the mass media as well as in everyday conversation. It is not meant to MOCK the Spanish language…or in any way belittle people who can speak Spanish with the correct pronunciations. In my case, having grown up on the Central California Coast I learned how to pronounce the Spanish words the way that I heard them spoken on radio and TV, and by my friends at school. I did not learn how to speak Spanish words with the correct pronunciation until I moved to TEXAS many years later.

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Here is the correct California pronunciation for cities and streets on the Central California coast.

My new book The English-Tagalog Primer should be released within the next two weeks, both on Kindle READER and in paperback version by CREATE SPACE. I will inform everyone as soon as it is published. I wrote the book mainly for elementary school students but I hope that anyone who would like to learn the basics of Tagalog will enjoy reading it!

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I am currently living in Harlingen Texas in the Rio Grande Valley located in deep south Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. I stayed in the Philippines for seven months, from May to December 2012. I learned a lot about the people, culture, food and language in the Philippines and I hope to return and retire someday!